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1961

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
2
states following
November 1986
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 1986

3 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

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Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “A person who stands upon the highway must exercise reasonable care for his own safety; and whether the person has complied with this requirement must depend upon all of the circumstances of the case.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[i]t was for the jury to determine whether the plaintiff had exercised reasonable care for his own safety,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “exercise reasonable care for his own safety.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.